"History is but the polemics of the victor."

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument."

— Salman Rushdie

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

— Joseph Joubert

"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

— Desmond Tutu

"Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted."

— Christopher Hitchens

"Intellectuals debate, idiots just argue."

— Dani Reynolds

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

— Christopher Hitchens

"It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person."

— Bill Murray

"There can be no progress without head-on confrontation."

— Christopher Hitchens

“The Pulse of the People”

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